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Ticks

Ixodoidea. Most of the critters on this page, where pulled off of my dogs, kids, or myself.

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Head of Dog Tick
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Angry engorged wood or dog tick
Angry engorged wood or dog tick		 Head of engorged Dog or wood tick (Dermacentor variabilis)
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IMG_8523s.jpg		 Deer tick mouth parts
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IMG_8521s.JPG		 Dog or Wood Tick
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IMG_0984s.jpg		 Engorged Dog (or Wood) Tick
Engorged Dog (or Wood) Tick
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IMG_6305s.jpg		 Deer Tick
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Female Deer Tick (Ixodes scapularis)
Female Deer Tick (Ixodes scapularis)		 IMG_9282s.JPG
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Carol Beale 15-May-2012 19:04
We live in VA and ticks seem to be particularly plentiful here this year. My husband has gotten 5 off of him so far. One of them was lime green with a yellow spot on it. We'd like some information about what kind it is and if it is dangerous.
Guest 05-May-2012 18:20
I just found a tick on my daughter's blanket she was sitting on after she came in from outside. It was the size of my pinky nail and was black with a big green spot on its back. Before I could get it, my daughter dragged the blanket through the house and now I can't find it. What kind of tick would this be?
Amanda 22-Apr-2012 01:47
I live in North Carolina. I keep finding ticks on my cat that are dark forest green. When they are full of blood they are are still very small. When they don't have blood in them you can barely see them. I have looked everywhere to find what kind they are. This is the first year I have seen them. I even found them all winter long.
melissa 31-Mar-2012 18:31
I found a tick on my dogs ear that looked like a kernal of corn with no markings that i could see before i destroyed it....they gross me out!!!!!!!
Jesilynne 08-Feb-2012 04:04
Yeah I just found a lime green tick with a black little tiny round head and black little legs on my dog, scared the crap out of me, untill my sister told me it was a tick. But I'm still wondering what kind, can someone please tell me so I can search it?
AquaFae 08-Jan-2012 09:51
I'm in Brunswick, Georgia and I find lime green ticks on the outside stray cats we care for at our house that we remove quite often. I can't find any information on them, either, but I will take pictures and post them soon.
Guest 16-Oct-2011 13:49
I just pulled a green tick off my cat in Pennsylvania
nicole 26-Aug-2011 18:31
yet anoth person..that would be me in ky.... found a lime green tick...what kind is it? googled it and this site is only that came up..thanks have a good one
Lea 05-Jul-2011 03:56
Found the tick photos...and comments Re: ticks...at p.base.com/mplonsky/ticks. Reason I went in search? I just saw and killed an absolutely bright lime-ish green tick. At least I believe it was a live tick that became dead very quickly.
Came to the site after entering search words "photos green ticks" (without the quotation marks, of course) and would you believe I cannot find ONE photo that even comes close to the coloration of this thing I believe might have been a tick.
Have no idea how it got into my home...but am very glad, since it was near where my totally indoor cats' food & water bowls are...that it didn't find a cat before I found IT. Gross? YES!
I didn't even know green ticks existed. Have been tick-bitten once but that diner was a brown-black color & I believe it either came indoors on dog or firewood.
Hedy Pardey 28-Jun-2011 07:55
Just came across your site, through Kim Piddington, on Facebook. We have a major tick problem on the Northern Beaches in Sydney Australia, I have been bitten many times as have my pets, past and present. There just has been a good article in the Syd.Morn.Herald, which you could down load if you are interested in the illnesses they carry and the problem we have here with our medical fraternity.SMH June 11 2011 Good Weekend' Bad Blood' by Fenella Souter. (if you google this you should get it) I have Parkinson's now and it never occurred to me there may be a link. We may find out, one day. PS love your work. So glad Kim directed us to it.
Rick 24-Jun-2011 16:55
I just killed a lime green 1 off the back of my neck. No bite though. Niagara Falls Canada
Guest 04-Nov-2010 15:12
Thank you very much for the beautiful pictures of these terrible creatures! I would like to use picture of the deer tick in my ecology papers and will show the source - your website.

Vera
Guest 04-Oct-2010 01:23
blueish green shine tick what kind is it it was feeding on me?
christophe 04-Aug-2010 19:54
Ale brzydkie....
j j h 16-Apr-2010 00:54
hey i also found a tick on my neck how i wonder sometimes THERE MEAN LIL THING HAHAHA by
Lasher500 09-Dec-2009 14:03
I found a tick burying its way into my stomach many years ago after trekking through the BC forest. Got rid of it quickly enough but even now, years later, I occassionally experience intense itching in the area that it embedded itseelf. Nasty vile creatures they are.
J. 09-Dec-2009 06:39
Outstanding work, Mark. You reveal the beauty of these animals.
Guest 11-Nov-2009 00:18
i like to see natural backrounds
nancy 13-Aug-2009 23:17
What does it mean if you squish one and instead of blood its like green blood
Please respond 01-Jul-2009 22:02
i just had a lime green tick crawling on me. didnt bite me, it was on my pants, i live in north dakota. does anyone know what this is? if it is carrying diseases? it was shaped exactly like a woodtick only it was lime green with small brown and yellow spots on some areas.
Nemodus 25-May-2009 21:09
Genial series !!!!
Nemodus.
HO HungKei 26-Apr-2009 05:19
nuclear weapon(s)!
Badger 11-Sep-2008 04:09
I have seen a lime green tick completely buried in my boss's dog's ear I keep trying to get her to take the dog to a vet but she won't so I am also trying to find out what it is so I can kill it. It's in the south MS area too.
waryofbugs 05-Aug-2008 13:36
I saw a green tick this morning, and was just looking up to see if anyone else had ever heard of one. The one I found was primarily lime in color, and the exact same size and shape as a brown tick, with a brown half moon on its back. Looks like they may not only be indigenous to Florida, but also Indiana. It was crawling on the door, just above where my two cats were ritualiastically sun bathing. I felt compelled to kill it, rather than just toss it in the yard, as my friend still suffers from her encounter with a deer tick over a decade ago. I find clippers work best for decapitation, and they give at least some distance between you and the tick.
twinmaker 412 14-Jun-2008 21:38
Hi I just wrote you re a possibility of a green tick,but i did not accuratly give a correct e mail add, this is the correct one to respond
twinmaker 14-Jun-2008 21:14
i FOUND a insect that looked like a tick,It was a lime green color and it was about one half inch in length by one quarter inch in width , I squished it so I dont know for sure if it had six or eight legs,also when i squished it there was no blood that came out. can you tell if it may have been a tick. Once again the color was a lime green.are ticks green,I live in clearwater fl.
jazzy 06-Jun-2008 15:00
that is nastey i just found one on my cat not my dogs
Liz 19-May-2008 10:42
It would be nice if the ticks were identified and sizes given.
coolgal 14-May-2008 20:57
Those stupid bugs are grossing my out!!!
Guest 14-May-2008 20:56
Nasty!
Guest 25-Feb-2008 05:32
Gross...I hate those things..
Mena VIllasenor 16-Sep-2007 18:54
tcan ticks get under a dogs or human skin
ladiesman 07-Aug-2007 04:18
those crappy ticks bit my dog poor thing was suffering and now we dont
know if shes gonna get sick or not.
M. Plonsky 13-Aug-2006 05:20
thanx gregory. These days I use a number of different kinds of flashes or, rarely, none. I sometimes play with slave flashes and use the mt-24ex for the extreme macros like these ticks.
Guest 13-Aug-2006 04:59
Argh I hate ticks, they gave me lyme disease.

Hey, what kind of flash do you use for your bug macros?
Scubalex 13-May-2006 17:50
disgusting creatures, are the most fascinating.....
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